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"A Computer is a state machine. Threads are for people who can't program state machines" (Alan Cox)

• rantwasp 6y ago
  not sure if serious or trolling but this sounds like trolling. the reason we use threads is that they are a higher level abstraction that helps us keep the cognitive load down and focused on the layer we care about.
• barbegal 6y ago
  What does this mean in practise? I think this comes from the days of single core machines where going to multiple threads can't improve performance. But even on a single core device, threading is routinely used because a single state machine becomes to big to easily program